A three day tour has been arranged to mark World Monument
Day, the theme of which this year is Science and Heritage.

The fortifications around Port Phillip Heads were essential
to the defence of the ports of Melbourne and Geelong from the Gold Rushes to
the Second World War. They comprise Fort Queenscliff, Point Nepean and
South Channel Fort. The former two are well known and much loved.
The latter, an artificial island just inside the Heads, is particularly
interesting for its 'disappearing' guns but is very difficult to access.
All three sites display a sequence of development based on the technical innovations
of military science.

The tour begins with a reception at Fort Queenscliffe at 4.00
pm on Friday 17 April followed by an official welcome and launch by the Mayor
of the Borough of Queenscliffe. Jane Ainsworth and Timothy Hubbard will
present an informal talk on the guns and cannon of south-west Victoria, some of
which have been identified as having outstanding international
significance. Dinner will be at a local restaurant.

The main part of the tour is an all-day journey by charter
boat on Saturday 18 April starting at Queenscliff Pier at 9.00 am. This
will include an extended stopover on South Channel Fort with a leading expert
on the fortifications from Parks Victoria. The next stop will be Portsea
with another extended site visit to Point Nepean. Again, leading experts
will explain the development of the site, its identification and protection
under the Commonwealth Government, and the fight to have the land returned to
the State Government as a national park. The Port Phillip Heads Marine National
Park now incorporates much of the landscapes and seascapes around the
Heads. Weather and time permitting, the return journey to Queenscliffe
will include Pope's Eye, the other artificial island which was not developed
into a fort. Dinner will be at another local restaurant.

On Sunday there will be a private and extended inspection of
Fort Queenscliff led by the fort's professional guides. The tour will
conclude about lunchtime on Sunday 19 April.

The tour will cost $155 per person for ICOMOS members and $170
for non-members. Unfortunately there cannot be any discounts or concessions
because of the cost of the charter boat. The cost includes: the opening
reception and talk on Friday, the boat trip, lunch and other refreshments
on Saturday, and the extended inspection of Fort Queenscliff on Sunday, as
well as tour notes and admissions. Payment can be made by credit card
using the
form attached to this e-newsletter. Places are strictly limited
and payment in full must be received by close of business on Tuesday 14
April (Easter Tuesday).

Accommodation is plentiful in Queenscliff but participants
are advised to book as soon as possible to confirm their accommodation.

Further enquiries can be made from Timothy Hubbard, Victorian
state representative of the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee by phone on
(03) 5568 2623 and 0419 353 195 and by email on timothy@heritagematters.com.au.

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Australian Event to Celebrate World Heritage Day - Monday 20 April

Theme of Event -
Heritage and Science

Date: Monday 20
April 2009

4.45pm registration
for 5pm start - 7.30pm,

AIA Headquarters,
100 Flinders St, Adelaide

An Australia ICOMOS meeting, supported by the Department for
Environment and Heritage, is to be held at the AIA Headquarters on 20 April
2009 to celebrate World Heritage Day. The theme this year for World Heritage
Day is Heritage and Science.

This meeting, will discuss heritage issues generally related
to this theme, and our guest speaker will be Stephen Forbes, Director of the
Adelaide Botanic Gardens, who will talk about heritage and science at the
gardens, and in particular about the recent architectural project there -
adjacent to the Museum of Botany.

This will be a highly practical interactive meeting for
architects, landscape architects, and other interested parties, and there will
be open discussion about the conservation processes as part of this Botanic
Gardens project.

After the talk, there will be intermission with drinks and
famously generous nibbles followed by a "news session" with local conservation
architects talking about recent projects. Participants are still being
confirmed, and this too will be interactive.

The event will be held at 100 Flinders Street. There
will be a charge of $15.00 for ICOMOS members, $25 for non members. Any
surplus funds will be donated to the Streetwise Asia fund for Heritage
Conservation - and a short introduction about the progress of this fund will be
provided at the start of the meeting.

Please RSVP to McDougall & Vines mcdvines@bigpond.com by 16 April 2009
at the latest to assist with catering purposes. Please also have
correct money to pay at the door. If any participants have examples of
recent heritage projects they wish to present at the meeting, please contact
Liz Vines.

Old Farm, Strawberry Hill, Albany has exceptional heritage
significance. It was the first farm in Western Australia commencing in 1827
within a few months of establishment of the Military settlement of King George
Sound. Stock were kept there and vegetables grown for the survival of
soldiers and later the early settlers. The original house was a pise cottage.
The two storey granite extension was built in 1836.

Old Farm building is constructed of stone walls, timber floor
and roof framing with slate roof cladding. It sits on reactive clay ground that
is subject to swelling when wet and shrinkage when dry. Over a long period
there has been foundation movement with consequent cracking and outward
movement of walls that is now accelerating. Associated rising damp also
continues to damage the building.

The Trust has engaged Airey Taylor Consulting to develop a
means of stabilising the building to prevent eventual collapse. The
stabilisation works involve two separate projects:

1.The underpinning, straightening and rotating back to
vertical of the south wall of the single storey kitchen and dining room.

2.The installation of a moisture stabilisation system for
the whole of the building perimeter.

This year's World Heritage Day will focus on the conservation
works at Old Farm Strawberry Hill. Join Eric Hancock with Peter Airey and Dr
Anthea Airey as they explain the techniques being applied to the place.

'The destruction was overwhelming, but I've never seen
such courage, strength and love.'

After tragedies
in three very different countries - the massacre at Port Arthur in 1996, the
Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Bali bombings in 2002 - governments and
communities all responded with building memorials and remembering
anniversaries. The similarities almost stop there. Not only are the memorials
different in design, but so were the processes for planning, for consultation
with communities and the ongoing management of the memorials.

Using
photographs and material from interviews gathered during visits to these sites,
Rosemary will describe the memorialisation of these events, and the initial
response to the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.

Rosemary Hollow
is close to completing her PhD at the Research School of Humanities at ANU on
How nations mourn: the memorialization and management of contemporary atrocity
sites. Rosemary has worked in natural and cultural heritage management with the
Tasmanian and Australian Governments and is currently with the Culture Division
of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts in Canberra.

Members and the
public are welcome. Refreshments will be available. This is part of
a series of talks organised in Canberra by Australia ICOMOS.

6) Department of the
Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: Media Release - New Chair for the
National Museum Of Australia

Federal Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett, today
congratulated Mr Daniel Gilbert AM on his appointment as Chair of the Council
of the National Museum of Australia (NMA).

Minister Garrett said Mr Gilbert has over 30 years experience
in commercial law, specialising in technology and corporate law, as well as an
extensive background in social justice issues and the arts.

"Mr Gilbert's experience on boards for arts organisations,
his extensive business knowledge and passion for social justice issues will be
a great asset to the National Museum's Council," Mr Garrett said.

"His long-term commitment to service of the law and the
community, particularly Indigenous Australians, saw him earn admission as a
Member of the Order of Australia in 2005."

Mr Gilbert is Managing Partner of law firm Gilbert + Tobin,
and is currently Non Executive Director of the National Australia Bank,
Councillor for the Australia Business Arts Foundation (ABAF), and a member of
the Prime Minister's National Policy Commission on Indigenous Housing.

In previous roles, Mr Gilbert has been Chair of the
Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Chair of the Law and Justice
Foundation of New South Wales, Chair of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and
Director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre.

"Mr Gilbert will bring valuable leadership skills and
insights to this critical role at the National Museum as it heads into its
eighth year since opening and continues its major gallery development program,"
Mr Garrett said.

The National Museum of Australia (www.nma.gov.au) is an award-winning national
cultural institution that provides Australians with access to their history and
cultural heritage through the maintenance and development of the National
Historical Collection, exhibitions and permanent displays, and other
activities.

7) New
title: Guidance on inventory and documentation of the cultural heritage

Guidance on inventory and documentation of the cultural
heritage

Improved heritage management and the inclusion of heritage in
planning and sustainable development processes necessitate inventory and
documentation. More than mere scientific tools recommended in international
agreements, inventory and documentation play a strategic role. The complexity
of the heritage items that now have to be inventoried and their interaction
with our everyday living environment require the clear definition and
harmonisation of practices at the European level. Through its work in the
1960s, the Council of Europe helped to lay the methodological bases for
inventorying architectural, archaeological and movable heritage. The efforts to
systematise the process came in answer to the broadening meaning of heritage,
and today new considerations lead us to address such notions as heritage
groups. The guidelines proposed in this book reflect the work done so far and provide
a basis for future research. It is part of a series produced under the
Technical Co-operation and Assistance Programme to present the experience
derived from the projects implemented by the Council of Europe.

US/ICOMOS announces that at its annual meeting held in New
Orleans on March 14, three new members were elected to the Board of Directors:
Suzanne Deal Booth, director and founder of Friends of Heritage Preservation in
Austin,Texas; Grover Mouton of the School of Architecture at Tulane Universitry
in New Orleans, Louisiana; and Jeffrey Soule International Director of the
American Planning Association in Washington, DC.

Nan Gutterman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Ronald Lee
Fleming of Cambridge, Masachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island, were elected to
serve a second three-year term.

The Board bade farewell to Pamela Jerome of New York, James
Reap of Georgia and Carol Shull of Virginia who completed their maximum
statutory term after six years of devoted service to US/ICOMOS.

Carol Shull was elected to be a Fellow of US/ICOMOS, a
lifetime honor bestowed on members who have rendered outstanding service to
US/ICOMOS and to the cause of international cooperation in heritage conservation.

How Sites of
Conscience can stimulate public awareness on detention and migration in a new
political era

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is a
worldwide network of "Sites of Conscience" - historic sites specifically
dedicated to remembering past struggles for justice and addressing their
contemporary legacies. Sites of Conscience, like the Terezin Memorial in the
Czech Republic, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in the US, the Gulag Museum
at Perm-36 in Russia, and the District Six Museum in South Africa, are places
of memory - such as historic sites, place-based museums or memorials - that
confront the history of what happened there and its contemporary implications
and foster public dialogue on social issues to build lasting cultures of human rights.

From June 26-28, 2009, the International Coalition and the
National Civil Rights Museum - site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. - are hosting an international colloquium, "A Museum for Guantanamo?:
how Sites of Conscience can stimulate public awareness on detention and
migration in a new political era" to develop strategies for how museums in
diverse contexts can foster ongoing civic participation in key civil rights and
civil liberties issues. The colloquium will convene a select group of
international leaders experienced in saving, preserving and interpreting places
remembering past struggles over migration, detention, and torture, and those
working to address these issues in the present. Exclusive working groups of
Sites of Conscience directors, preservationists, and educators, along with
advocates attempting to reframe current public debates on migration and protect
civil liberties today will develop strategies for activating Sites of
Conscience as effective spaces for local and international debate and
grassroots engagement in these issues. These strategies will be implemented at
Sites of Conscience across the world following the event. Participants in the
colloquium constitute a multidisciplinary group with wide-ranging international
experience. Speakers at the opening plenary include Doudou Diene, Former
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and former UNESCO Director
of the Division of Intercultural Projects (currently Division of Intercultural
Dialogue) and Hector Timerman, Ambassador of to the United States,
Argentina, among others.

Contact:

Developed to mark the 40th anniversary of the Venice Charter
and the foundation of ICOMOS, and following in the footsteps of the 1964
exhibition in Venice, the Third International Exhibition on Monument
Restoration, which has been touring Italy since 2006, will now be on show,
following previous stops in Rome and Reggio Calabria, at the Palazzo Reale in
Napoli from 3 April to 19 May 2009.

With the theme "From Restoration to Conservation: 40 years
of projects and achievements" the exhibition aims to offer an occasion to
exchange national and international experiences on the state of the art of
conservation, and many ICOMOS National Committees have contributed. The
exhibition has three sections: international, national and Campania, dedicated
to regional events such as the restoration of the Cathedral of Pozzuoli.

A catalogue of the exhibition in two volumes has been
edited. The first volume collecting international experiences, and the second
the state of the art in Italy, including an addendum on contemporary
architectural heritage at risk.

Further Information

For further information on the exhibition - consult the
following websites:

The Sector
for Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO calls for nominations for the Jose
Marti International Prize for which the deadline is 10 April 2009 at midnight.

Established in 1994 by the Executive Board of UNESCO at the
initiative of Cuba, the Jose Marti International Prize is endowed with a sum of
5,000 U.S. dollars financed by the Cuban Government. Member States or Associate
Members of UNESCO, as well as international governmental and non governmental
organizations and foundations that maintain official relations with UNESCO and
whose activities fall within the scope of the Award are invited to propose a
nomination of one person or entity.

Applications may in fact be submitted by a person, group of
persons, institution or non-governmental organization, from anywhere in the
world that the candidate made an important contribution to the unity and the
integration of Latin America and the Caribbean and to the preservation of their
identities, cultural traditions and historical values.

Jose Marti fought from a very early age (Havana, 28 January
1853 - Dos Rios, 19 May 1895) in word and deed for the independence of Cuba,
the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean and the ideal of universal
concord. His ideas brought him imprisonment, torture and exile to Spain, where
he studied at the Universities of Madrid and Zaragoza. A wanderer by force of
circumstance, he travelled in Europe, the United States and Latin America. He
was a journalist - the first to cover the region as a press correspondent - and
founded various newspapers and reviews. His collected works, comprising 28
volumes, reveal the many facets of his outstanding intellectual abilities as
poet, educator, diplomat, leader and revolutionary ideologist. Jose Marti gave
his life during the war of independence of 1895.

Organizers

Background

The AFRICA 2009 programme, launched in 1998, is aimed at
improving conditions for the conservation of immovable cultural property in
Africa through better integrating it into a sustainable development framework.
Since its inception, the programme has successfully implemented activities at
both the regional and site levels. The programme is organized with assistance
from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), The National Heritage
Board of Sweden, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Finland, and
Italy, the Unicom-WHC and ICCROM.

Objective

The aim of the course is to bring together a group of
African heritage professionals to build a greater awareness of the most
important issues in the area of conservation planning and management,
especially as it relates to African immovable heritage. This course is the last
in the series of Africa 2009 regional courses and aims at deepening the knowledge
of the problems and challenges faced by African heritage professionals and
institutions in carrying out conservation work in Africa.

Further Information

Application

Please use the Africa 2009 application forms or write to CHDA at
the address below to receive a copy. The application form can be also
downloaded from the Africa2009
website. All application forms must be signed/endorsed by the national
director in charge of immovable heritage in the applicant's country.

The completed application forms and supporting documents
should be sent to CHDA by email and by post at the addresses indicated below.

Deadline

Applications must reach CHDA by 20 April 2009.
Electronic and paper versions must include the signature and endorsement of the
national Director in charge of immovable heritage in the applicant's country.
Only complete applications, duly endorsed, will be considered.

Job Description

Cultural Heritage Project (CHP) in Iraq, being implemented by
International Relief and Development (IRD), is designed to focus US and
international resources and expertise on rebuilding the professional
capabilities of Iraq's museum, heritage and archaeology organizations, and
antiquities preservation and management.

This is a two-year project funded by a grant from the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad and administered by International Relief and Development.

CHP is a high profile project which will implement three key
program areas that have definable, tangible, measurable results: a) the
establishment of a new conservation and historic preservation Institute in
Erbil to serve preservation and training needs throughout Iraq; b) the
establishment of a professional environment within the Iraq Museum to support
its core objectives of preservation and promotion of scholarship; and c)
professional development and capacity building of Iraq's museum and antiquities
staff

Contact

A Consortium of leading European Universities composed by
University of Minho (coordinating institution, Portugal), the Technical
University of Catalonia (Spain), the Czech Technical University in Prague
(Czech Republic) and the University of Padua will offer a Master Course in
Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions, beginning in
October 2009.

The Erasmus Mundus Master Courses represent a route
to respond to the challenges of the European higher education system, making of
Europe the most competitive region in the world, based on an economy of
knowledge. These Master Courses are a reference in the education of high
quality, being classified as excellent by the European Commission.

The Master Course has duration of one academic year and is
intended to civil engineers with a higher education degree of four or five
years. Students should carry out the coursework and the thesis in two different
countries, obtaining a recognized degree by the two Institutions. The period
of application to a Consortium Scholarship is due to May 31, the remaining
applications last until September 14.

Infrastructure
and Heritage Conservation: Opportunities for Urban Revitalization and Economic
Development

The World Bank Urban Development Unite announces the latest
issue of DIRECTIONS in Urban Development, titled "Infrastructure and
Heritage Conservation: Opportunities for Urban Revitalization and Economic
Development" authored by Katrinka Ebbe, a consultant working with our
Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Thematic Group.

DIRECTIONS in Urban Development is a monthly Issues Note
aimed at sharing good practice experience, providing a forum to exchange ideas
and innovations, and drawing attention to new WB or development partner urban
research - all within a focused and succinct format.

DIRECTIONS will feature guest authors who are practitioners,
policy analysts, academicians, and others interested in sharing new ideas of
relevance to the urban development community globally. Please contact Kim
Colopinto (kcolopinto@worldbank.org)
with suggestions for topics that are timely and relevant to our global urban
community and with submissions for the Note.

Context is looking for an experienced heritage consultant to
be part of our team working on a range of interesting heritage projects,
including:

• local
heritage studies

•
municipal heritage plans and strategies

•
conservation management plans

•
community-based heritage processes: consultation, workshops etc

• social
significance assessment

•
Indigenous heritage management: places, policies, research

You would be part of a small, specialist team, working for
existing and new clients. Communication skills are important as you would have
direct client contact, and be managing project teams comprising internal and
external consultants. You would need skills in time management, delegation,
creative and strategic thinking, and working collaboratively.

The right person will have broad experience and well-honed
skills in heritage assessment, planning and management. Your specialisation
could be in one of many relevant disciplines, including: planning and policy,
cultural landscapes, architecture, history, archaeology, urban or rural
geography, or other allied field.

Previous work as a consultant, including project management,
would be a distinct advantage. Suitable applicants will have 5-8+ years
experience.

As well as heritage, Context works in the fields of community
and environment, and others on our team offer skills in facilitation, community
information, consultation, environmental policy and planning, education and
training and change management and more!

The position is full-time, and based in Brunswick (Victoria).
Some travel locally and interstate is involved.

While we are looking for someone to join our in-house team,
we are also always interested in talking with other consultants about possible
collaborations. And we expect to have a 12 month senior consultant position
available starting in June as well - possibly a secondment or a contract
position.

Please send an application - including a letter addressing
your interests in Context and the requirements described above plus your resume
- to Mary Ward by email or by post (Context Pty Ltd, 22 Merri Street, Brunswick
3056) no later than Monday 27 April, 2009.

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